Re: What's the story on Content.IE5?

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Terry,
>
>Smoke and mirrors.
>
>Content.IE5 does not appear in Widows Explorer, you have to know where it is
>and sneak up on it.
>
>>From your screen shot...
>
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
>which translates to
>C:\Documents and Settings\Terry Pinnell\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
>Files
>has no subfolders.
>
>What are all of those 107....../ files? Are these from Forte Agent? What
>are those icons by the 107 files? Looks like some kind of Notepad. A
>notepad replacement maybe?

Thanks for the follow up Ed.

I too was puzzled by those so I tried opening one. Like most Cookies,
that didn't enlighten me much! First few all looked like this:

Conversion
CvsBQTlyNXI2bUluQkpzc0NNSXdVd3FoUUNJQ0NLWjdINDUyaWVaQUEzNHRCNFRBZzdFQVFDckNCTVFBS2FCZ3JxdF9EQUFBQUFRQ
[and 4 more lines more like that]
www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/1071027584/
1024
453695744
29680886
725687104
29674851
*

I've never been too fussed about cookies, but maybe I should be? Do
you clear them out regularly (and suffer the presumable downsides of
some inconvenience), or just leave them alone?


>ETO36HQ9 and GD6Z0LAN are subfolders in Content.IE5.
>
>Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Help and Support and other programs use
>Temporary Internet Files for storing temp files. No telling what else was
>storing files there. Forte Agent maybe? Was that still open when you
>cleaned the TIFs?

Probably, usually open 96% of the time. As I saw at least one JPG in
there, maybe IrfanView too?

>%homepath% is an environment variable that is the path to the user's home
>directory.
>
>Typing or pasting %homepath% into the Start | Run box opens to the Documents
>and Settings folder on whatever drive it is located on and the logged in
>user.
>
>I.e. C:\Documents and Settings\Terry Pinnell
>
>%homepath% is also shorter than C:\Documents and Settings\Terry Pinnell
>It is certainly shorter than C:\Documents and Settings\Wesley P. Vogel. ;-)
>
>To view:
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
>
>Start | Run | Type: inetcpl.cpl | Click OK
>Or right click the Internet Explorer icon on your Desktop.
>Or: Start | Settings | Control Panel | Internet Options.
>General tab | Settings button | View Files button
>
>Or...
>
>Start | Run | Paste this in the box:
>
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
>
>Click OK.
>
>To view:
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
>Files\Content.IE5 AND \Content.MSO (Created by an MS Office program).
>
>Start | Run | Type: cleanmgr | Click OK | Highlight Temporary Internet
>Files |
>View Files button
>
>Or...
>
>Start | Run | Type: %tmp% | Click OK |
>
>You will probably have to click the Folders button on the Tool Bar.
>Click: [+] Temporary Internet Files
>Click: [+] Content.IE5
>Click: Random named folders
>Look at stuff
>You can also view Content.MSO
>
>Or...
>
>Start | Run | Paste this in the box:
>
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
>
>Click OK.
>You can also view Content.MSO

Yes, thanks, got that from the previous posts of yours I mentioned.

>Or...
>Start | Run | Paste this in the box:
>
>%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO
>
>Click OK.

The subfolders now seem to have been deleted, in which case that
appears to have take *two* reboots since I deleted them!
%homepath%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO now
shows only
desktop.ini
Index.dat

That index is 2.35MB, so I guess that's just the Cookies (which need
separate deletion)?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
.

Loading